The Rise of David Levinsky: A Story of the Immigrant Trade
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by John Frederick Kensett, George Inness and Winslow Homer. A Talmud student from Antomir lands in New York with four cents, and rises to be a millionaire of the New York cloak trade — losing, item by item, everything he came with. Cahan fled the Tsar after the 1881 pogroms and edited the Jewish Daily Forward for more than forty years; this 1917 novel is the great book of the Jewish immigration, and Levinsky's success is described exactly as the disaster it is. Fifty-nine plates, from Winslow Homer's shore scenes to James Bard's Hudson River steamboats, follow the immigrant's passage from the old world to the new.
Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by John Frederick Kensett, George Inness and Winslow Homer. A Talmud student from Antomir lands in New York with four cents, and rises to be a millionaire of the New York cloak trade — losing, item by item, everything he came with. Cahan fled the ...
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Abraham Cahan (1860–1951) was a writer and editor who emigrated from Lithuania to the United States in 1882. He founded and edited the Yiddish-language daily Forverts (Jewish Daily Forward) in New York for decades. His novel The Rise of David Levinsky (1917) traces an immigrant's material success and inner alienation.
Abraham Cahan (1860–1951) was a writer and editor who emigrated from Lithuania to the United States in 1882. He founded and edited the Yiddish-language daily Forverts (Jewish Daily Forward) in New York for decades. His novel The Rise of David Levinsky (1917) traces an immigrant's material success...
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